Bottle holder or support.



"PATENTED JAN, ,A1903.

W. TLHOLTON. BOTTLE HOLDER OR SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, 1902.

H0 MODEL.

witness UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E-.-

WILLIAM T. H OLTON, RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE HOLDER R SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 717,995, dated January 6, 1903.

Application filed May 5,1902. $erial No. 106,065. (No model.)

and 16 are hooked to engage the eyes 6 and 8.

To all whom it may concern: The supporting-bar 3, which engages'the eye Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. HOLTON, a 2 of the ring 1, engages the eye 12 of'the 55 citizen of theUnited States, residing at Riverhanger 11, which is suspended from a suitside, in the county of Riverside and State of able flexible connection l7,which is designed California,haveinvented new and useful Imto be secured to anysuitable support. When provements in Bottle Holders or Supports, of it is desired to incase the bottle within the which the following is a specification. holder, the hanger is removed from contact 60 This invention relates to bottle holders or with the open ring or ellipse 7, and the bars supports, and is primarily intended for sup- 5 and 9 may be sprung apart enough to perportinganursing-bottle so as to be within easy mit the bottle to be inserted, the neck being reach of the child for which it is intended. surrounded by the ring 1. The bars are then The peculiar manner of accomplishing the permitted to spring back, and the ends desired result, as well as the novel details of and 16 are hooked in the eyes 6 and 8, makconstruction of the device, will be clearly set ing the holder complete. The tendency of 15 forth in the following description, reference the jaws 13 and 14 to spring together willrebeing had to the accompanying drawing, in snlt in holding the bars 5 and 9 in their corwhich the figure is a view in perspective, rect positions, thus obviating the liability of showing the device applied. the bottle becoming accidentally dislodged.

The numeral ldesignates a ring which fits It will be obvious that changes in the size, 20 over the neck of the bottle and is provided dimensions, proportions, and minor details with an eye 2 at its top, to which is secured may be resorted to without in the least doa laterally-extending supporting-bar 3, to be parting from the spirit of the invention. referred to hereinafter. A strand of Wire 4 Having thus fully described my invention, is connected to the ring 1 at a point on one what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters 25 side of the eyes 2 and runs longitudinally the Patent, is

position the bottle is to assume a suitable 1. Abottle-holder comprisingaring adaptdistance to form a bar 5, thence bent to form ed to. fit over the neck of the bottle, an open an eye 6, then curved downward in the form ring a suitable distance therefrom and conof an ellipse 7, the strand being bent to form nected by parallel bars secured to the first 30 a second eye 8, and finally terminating in a and last named rings, a vertical spring suplongitudinally-positioned bar 9, running parporting device secured to the open ends of allel with the bar 5 and secured at its end to the openring, and a connection between the the ring 1 at a point opposite the bar 5 on the supporting device and the first-named ring. other side of the eye 2. The ellipse 7 consti- 2. A bottle-support comprising a pair of 5 tutes an open ring, which is vertical and parparallel rings one of which is open, bars conallel with the ring 1, said elliptical portion necting the open ring to the otherring, a supforming a seat for the enlarged part of the porting device normally holding the ends of. bottle after the neck has been placed through the open ring against spreading, and a conthe ring 1. In order to connect the ellipse necting means between the closed ring and 40 7 and the ring 1 together at their lower porthe supporting device.

tions, I arrange a plurality of parallel longi- 3. Abottle-support comprisingaframe havtudinal tie-rods 10, the ends of which engage ing an open ring at one end thereof, a sup- 5 the respective rings and, in conjunction with porting device comprising two spring-jaws the bars 5 and 9, add rigidity to the bottleremovably secured to the 'ends of the open 45 support. ring, and a connection between the support- The reference numeral 11 designates a ing device and the opposite end of the frame. hanger for the frame just described, which In testimony whereof I affix my signature ICO comprises astrandof wire bent intermediate in presence of two witnesses. its ends to form an eye 12'and provide two 5o spring-jaws 13 and 14, which intersect each WILLIAM '1 HOLTON' other, so that their ends 15 and 16 will have Witnesses: a tendency to spring together. The ends 15 I. S. WARREN,

W. W. WILSON. 

